Brake for automobiles.



A. S. LENHART & J. L. WELLS BRAKE TOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5, 191.

1 1 13,567. Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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v UNITED STATES PATENT "om rron...

ADAM s. LENHART em) JAY L. WELLS, or nmununo, PENNSYLVANIA.

' BRAKE Fort AUTOMOBILES.

. Application filed Novezn To all whom it may concern:

and JAY L. WnLLs,'both citizens of the United States, residing at Hamburg, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented certain-new and useful Improvements in Brakes for Automobiles, of

which the following is a specification; 1

Our invention relates particularly to braking devices for -automobiles in which a rotary brake-drum isemployed, in connection with internally arranged brake shoes and means for pivotally spreading the latterto frictionallyengage the innersurface of the drum; and it consists in provid ng; very simple and improved means or conveniently end satisfactorily taking up 'wear ofthe shoes during service, asv fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the, claim.

Figure l is a partly sectional view show-' ing portions of a rear axle and driving wheel of the adjusting piv'ot-pin.

of an automobile, with a brake mechanism embodying, our invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 ise transverse section taken on the line 2+2 of Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a cross-sec tional view of the brake shoes, on the line 3,3 of'liigyfl; and Fig. ,4 is a separate view Referring to thedraw1ngs, 2 represents a driving Wheel, which'is fixed to, an axle'3, and carries -a brake drum 4:. Thjaxlefl is mounted in a bearing box 5 of its casing 6, and it "brake operating. shaft 7 is mounted in aflnn'ge portion 8 of, the latter. The 'approximately. semicircular brake shoes 10, within the drum 4:, are normally drawn together byconneeting springs 11, end are spreed by a cam 12 on the operatingshsft 7 so as to frictionally engage the inner surface of the drum; this general construction and manner of operating being well known in the art. 1

The shoes 10 form separate halves of a. split ring within the drum, and have abut-- ting pivocends 15 arranged to jointly engage an interposed pivot-pin 16, while their opposite ends 17 are engaged by the m terposed spreading cam 12 on operating shaft 7. The outer curved surface of-the shoes, which are moved into contact with the inner surface of the rotary drum are preferably provided witli'removably secured \Be it known that we, ADAM S. LENHART quired; In .our improved construction, this p1vot -p1n 16 with which the opposed pivot.- ends 15 of the shoes 10 engage, 'and against "which said pivot-ends are pressed when the Specification of Letters ietent. Patented'Oct. 13, 1914.

were, 1913. Serial no. 799,252.

same time permit of ready renewal when rev oppositeends 17-1re spread by operzition of i the clam shaft 7,.is adapted to serve as an adjustable spreading device for the pivot-ends of the shoes; the purpose of such spreading action being merely to compensate, zit requiredintervals, for such wearing down of the friction surface of the shoes as would otherwise prevent proper frictional engagen ent'with the drum and necessitate undue movement of the operating shaft 7. This object is attained by simply forming the pivot-pin 16 with a tapering or conical body portion as shown in Fig. 4, and with a screwor arm 8 and is formed with a screw-driver slot 16 end lock nut 21, thus permitting of. convenient adjustment of the pivot-pin without. removing the drive" wheel. Thus the conical pivot-pin readily set to orre-- I i spend when new shoes, or renewed friction I strlps thereon, are in service; and when wear ing'shaft 7, and permitting further satisfactory service until renewal of the shoes or their friction strips is necessary; the life of the shoes and their satisfactory service; be-

ing thus greatly, prolonged, and the annoyanoe', cost, and trouble or renewals decreased.

What we claim is In a brake device for automobiles the combination with an axle'carryinge drive-wheel brnke drum, end a fixed casing for said axle; a pair of spring-connected semi-circularbra'ke shoes within said drum'each hav occurs itmay be readil adjusted so as to spread the pivot-ends o the shoes and corvrespondingly move-.the'worn friction sur- Q e b 1,118,567

ing a pivot -pinabutting end; a ivot pin ee- In testimony whereef we aflix our signacureddtp smd fixed casing, anf 'meanls1 for tures in presence of two witnesses. sprea ing the opposite ends ofthe s es' v sgid pivot pin having a'conical body-p01 tlon mterposed between said abutting ends and a screw-threaded ortion, whereby the' Witnesses:

abutted ends of said s oes may be spread, ADAM L. OTTERBEIN', snbs tantially as set forth. D. M. STEWART. 

